These Simple Damned Device(s) found each other in the summer of 2010.That's a story for another day.

 

    The idea of the band's singer/lyricist, Lawrence Bayne(LFB) was to get road toughened recording savvy players together from widely varied genres(Blues/Folk/Soul/Metal) combined with his own Goth and Punk leanings and make something that honored those styles while turning the conventions on their head.

 

The result has been a prodigious output of metallic ballads, lecherous lullabyes, driving dirges and original, sonic salutes to the musically diverse background of each member.

 

Live, they balance tight playing with unpredictability-having been known to improvise entire songs while on stage.

 

Bass and Percussion are the ferociously focused rhythm section  locked in at a molecular level, providing Guitarist Kevin Bell a foundation for soaring riffs and solos.. and in front, LFB.. A mercurial performer, at times threatening, fragile, and often seeming physically controlled by every rumble, crash and cry of the band.

Honoring the 70's with bands like The Stranglers,Grand Funk Railroad and Bob Mould, the sonically ferocious stage and studio vets deconstruct and deliver power chords and heavy grooves- a soundtrack of fierce blues/sludge/rock alongside forceful vocals and lyrics that are caustic,painfully funny with raw observations on Love,Lawlessness and Neuroticism. ​

The music is an elemental​,raw, organic chaos making you want to fuck,fight or get off the fence.

​                   A LIVE ACT NOT TO BE MISSED...OR MESSED WITH

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                             ​​​       LFB

                                                     Frontman/Lyricist/Songwriter

 

 

     As a Poet, Lyricist, Singer and Composer LFB ( a tattoo on his arm-you ask him what the 'F" stands for) has performed with the band  Control Freak in many diverse venues from  L.A and South Africa to South Dakota and Moncton, New Brunswick.  He's also a v/o artist and

was hand-picked by Gene Simmons ​ to voice the role of "RockZilla" 

in "My Dad the RockStar", a cartoon Gene created and executive produced for Nickelodeon .​ Lawrence demanded to also do the singing for the character and after hearing Lawrence sing a demo, Gene enthusiastically agreed.

 

​He writes thinly veiled death threats to abusers, liars, sycophants and ex-sweethearts.. and they’re all love songs. "The minute you 'Produce' something you are lying to Creation"

Follow  him @lawrencebayne

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​                                   KEVIN Bell ​

                                                        Musical Director/Guitars /Songwriter

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​        A respected session player Kevin has worked with Producers,Bob Ezrin, Jack Richardson,Doc McGhee and Doug Riley.He has also played with Johnny Winter,Roy Buchanan, AWB, Edward Bear,Norm Hacking (with whom he co-produced the album "Stubborn Ghost"), Murray McLauchlan and was one of Alice Cooper’s drinking buddies (one of the reasons Alice don’t drink no more) He started playing the guitar at 12yrs and was quickly nicknamed by T.Bone Walker 'YoungBlood'. He also toured and recorded during the late '70's with the Miami -based funk band Nyteflyte (whose members included musicians from the Average White Band and Gino Vanelli's band) ,He also  plays on several radio and television jingles.

 

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                                               DAVID F. South

                                                                                      Bass

 

            Axe-wielder and mead maker,David has played with top tribute     bands across Canada from Alice Cooper to Black Sabbath to Yes.

Like Marv in in City, if he had been born 500 years ago he would have been comfortable swingin' an axe into a face. When he doesn't have a bass in his hands he can be found sculpting Picasso-esque art out of dental stone and plaster.

                                                Follow him @piratechefs

 

 

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       DERICK E.Lindo

 

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